Business
Tech Stocks Shed Record $2.9 Trillion in One Day
The S&P 500 lost an estimated $2.9 trillion in market value Thursday, the largest one-day loss on record, as the Nasdaq fell more than 5% into correction territory.
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$2.9T Tech Selloff, Newsom Commutations, and the Rockefeller Tree
Tech stocks shed a record $2.9 trillion, Newsom clears California’s death row, and a bull and donkey teach scientists about love.
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Politics & World
Newsom Commutes All 548 California Death Sentences
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that every one of California’s 548 condemned prisoners will instead…
Sources: BBC World, DW, Fox News Politics
Sports & Culture
LIV Golf Shuts Down After Investor Withdraws
LIV Golf confirmed it is shutting down entirely after its main investor dropped plans for a…
Sources: ESPN, AP News, USA Today
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The number of years the SS Cornwallis sat undiscovered off the coast of Maine after a German U-boat torpedoed it in 1944. Divers finally located the merchant ship 400 feet below the surface — sunk by a submarine that had delivered Nazi spies to American soil just days earlier.
Source: Smithsonian
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How easily AI tools can fabricate a convincing scientific paper, and what that means for the integrity of research publishing.
IEEE Spectrum · Benjamin Skuse
Traction! Why a world without friction is a world without progress
Why friction — the force engineers spend careers fighting — is the hidden ingredient that makes progress possible.
Aeon · Jennifer R. Vail
- Wednesday, Nov. 11
Federal offices and banks close as the U.S. marks Veterans Day, honoring the nation’s military veterans and their families.
- Dec. 25
Earth’s newly captured mini moon, QQ8, lingers in orbit through Christmas before drifting away for good.
Etcetera
- The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is on its way to Manhattan
- A bull and a donkey’s unlikely romance is teaching scientists about interspecies bonds
- The 11-year-old girl whose letter gave Abraham Lincoln his beard
- Knicks star Jalen Brunson moonlights as a ‘Law & Order: SVU’ detective
- A 2,800-year-old Siberian tomb holds the earliest evidence of cannabis use
- Sony revives its original 1979 Walkman headphones — orange ear cushions and all
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toAmerica’s Newest History-Making Senator Comes From the Family That Invented the Chicken Tender
On this day · November 6
The Historybook- 1860Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States
- 1869Rutgers defeats Princeton 6-4 in the first intercollegiate football game
- 1913Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa
- 1999Australians vote in a referendum to keep the British monarch as head of state
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Quote of the day
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect.”
— Arnold Palmer
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